Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: There is a connection between neurosensorial hearing loss and tipe 2 diabetes. Diabetes is a systemic chronic disease that affects the vessels and nerves. There are 415 million people all over the world that suffer from diabetes. There is not a clear mechanism of how diabetes is related to hearing loss but it s possible that the high blood glucose levels associated with diabetes cause damage to the small blood vessels in the inner ear, similar to the way in wich ...